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scrowl

scrowl verb: to cook (pilchards) on a gridiron.

Verb

scrowl (third-person singular simple present scrowls, present participle scrowling, simple past and past participle scrowled)

  1. (Cornwall, transitive) To cook (pilchards) on a gridiron.
    • The approved method of cooking them [pilchards], according to Mr. Howard Fox, "is to split and pepper, place one fish flat on another, backs outside, and roast on a gridiron." This is the process provincially termed "scrowling."1884, H. J. Green, The Herring Fisheries, page 391
    • If it wasn't for the smoothy ^([sic]) pavement under my feet I could picture myself crawlin' home from work and mother scrowling pilchers fur my supper.1899, The Cornish Magazine, volume 2, page 138

Forms of scrowl

third-person singular presentscrowls
present participlescrowling
past participlescrowled
pastscrowled

Questions about scrowl

What does scrowl mean?
Scrowl means to cook (pilchards) on a gridiron.
What part of speech is scrowl?
Scrowl is a verb.
What is the past tense of scrowl?
The past tense of scrowl is scrowled.

Words near scrowl in the dictionary

  1. scrowdging
  2. scrowge
  3. scrowged
  4. scrowges
  5. scrowging
  6. scrowl
  7. scrowled
  8. scrowler
  9. scrowlers
  10. scrowling
  11. scrowls

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